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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-19
THE B. & 0. DEAL CLOSED.
NOT A MERE RUMOB, BUT AN
ACTUAL FACT.
Mr.. Garrett Has Decided a Control
ling Interest In His Great
Railway Property
TO NEW COkRRS, WHOSE NAMES
ARE WITHHELD.
Neither Mr.. Sully, Jay Gould Nor
the Richmond Terminal Com
pany Are la the Deal.

NEW YORK, March Is Tho World
says: There is every reason to believe
that Mr.. Henry Grady, of the Atlanta
Constitution, has sccess to authoritative
information as to the arrangement in
regard TO the sele OF the Baltimore
and Chic railroad from influential
Southern railroad friends in New
York, and that the following state
ment sent by the New York corre-
spondent to the Constitution is BASED
upon the exact facts: "rhe dickering
is done. The fqusbble is over, and
the Baltimore and Ohio deal is closed.
This is not M re rumor, but an actu-
al fact. The trade has bsen positively
effected. and Mr.. Garrett has decided a
controlling interest in his great rail-
road property to nsw comers. Who
the purchasers are is yet held in pro.
found secrecy, but some names that
have been prominently connected with
the recent negotiations are not down
on the list. Mr.. Sully has nothing to
do with the purchase, and does not,
probably, even know of it as yet.
Neither has Mr. Gould any interest in
tu0 LLdubt uuT ID lu6 lOTmluhl OuD-
pany, ia its corporate capacity,
a buyer, but at the same time
some of the leading members
Of the Terminal management are
individually interested. When this
matter is generally known and the
mystery cleared up it will more than
likely lave a stimulating effect on the
general stock market, and the tape
will probably record considerably
higher prices for the msjority OF
active stocks. The absorbing interest
in this subject Of late snd the perplex-
ing uncertainty OF the matter has been
a decided damper on speculation, and
tended to materially check the volume
OF trade in the Exchange. With regard
to the future presidency of the Ter.
minal company, it is now generally
known that Mr. john II. Inman has
positively declined 10 entertain the
idea OF oCcfp'ing it, and todsy's rumor
is that Mr.. R. s. Hayes, formerly man.
ager of Gould's Missouri Pacific sys.
tenn, has been solicited to take the
presidency, and that hs is considering
the matter favorsbly. Mr.. Hayes's
reputation as railroad man of con-
summate ability is und sputed, and
the suggestion Of his mama is received
with such universal favor that it is
even possible that Mr.. Sully would be
willing 10 resign in his favor.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-19
JOurneymen sheemakrrs.

TORONTO, March 1S.-The journey
men shoemakers belonging to the
Knights Of Labor have demanded an
increase Of 10 per cent ia wages, aud
if the demand is not complied with a
strike will occur about Monday next.
1t is thought that the employers will
refuse to grant the increase and that a
strike is inevitable.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-19
Passenger Association Managers

CHICAGO, ILL, March 1S.-The gen.
eral managers Of the Western States
Passenger Association today adopted
the revised contract prepared by the
passenger agents for the government
OF that organic atom. A few unim.
portant amendments were made, the
principal one providing heavy penal.
ties for any infraclion Of the rules.
Nessrs. Cable and Potter were ap.
pointed q committee to hear argu-
ments on the question Of eqlalizing
commissions west of the Missouri river
via Kansas City and Omaha from st.
Louis. The meeting then adjourned
sine die,
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-19

YOUNG or middled aged men suf-
fering from nervous debility, loss Of
memory, premature old age, as the
result of bad habits, should send 10
cents in stamps for large illustrated
treatise. Address, Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association, $50
Main street, Buffalo, N Y.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-19
Mr.. CIeveIand's FITtIeth birthday

WASHINGTON, March 1S-Today is
the fittieth anniversary Of President
Olevelaud's birthday, but there is no
outward observance OF the event at
the White House beyond the pre-.
sentation OF number OF floral tributes
by personal fliends. Mrs. Hoyte, the
Presidents sister, is a guest at the
White House.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-19

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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07
THE GARDENS OF EGYPT.

At the beginning of March the Gardens
of Egyptare really wonderful; the orange
and lemon trees spread their most pungent
odor; the rose trees are covered with In
Vulnerable flowers; the palms, with their
green and white crowns, swing there IN
the wind; the oleanders there border the
avenues; on the lawns anemones, annual
and perpetual Towering pinks, chrysan-
themums, violet, zinnias, periwinkles,
snap-dragons, migonette, pansies, and pet
unias blend their innumerable cOlOrs with
the green of the trees, bushes, and shrubs.
Groups of bamboos lift here and there
their long green or golden stems, drowned
with an immense plume of pretty little
trembling leaves. One comprehends on
seeing these stems, which assume in few
months enormous proportions, the cruelty
ingenious punishment of the Chinese in
binding a criminal to a young bamboo.
The plant grows and the wretch is quar-
tered in few weeks. No wood is lighter
or more useful than that of the bamboo.
One does not understand why the Egyp-
tians neglect to plant it along the canals
and on every cultivated land, where 1t
grows so we'll. But what gives, at least
during winter and spring, the most smil-
ing aspect to the Egyptian gardens are the
great sheets of rose bougainvilles that
cling to the walls, the trees and groups OF
foliage, and which display everywhere the
varied and exquisite tint of their flowers:
The bougainville is certainly the finest OF
climbing plants. During five months, it
flowers under the winter sun, takes shades
of extreme delicacy-one might say a
rose tint, in the intensity of which every
play of light varies. The aloes, the agave,
attach themselves on rocky slopes. On
the banks of the water courses the blue
lotus, and the papyrus still revive antique
"reminiscences. Grass cannot be raised IN
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07
IMAGINATION.

Here is a story which is often told to
show the power of imagination. A MUIR
derer was condemned to die, and some
physicians obtained permission to try an
experiment upon him. They told the
prisoner that his execution was to be pri-
vate instead of public, and that death
would be painless. They took him blind
folded into room and laid him on table
that had little faucets of water at the cor
ners. He thought he was to be bled to
death. He heard the doctors, who talke
as if they were bleeding him, and when
they turned on the water he thought it was
the blood dropping, and actually died
without having lost drop of blood, sim
ply because he imagined he was dying:
Another story which shows how the i'm
agination can make we'll person sick, is
told of a certain DR.. Buckland. He gave
a dinner one day. after he had been dis
secting Mississippi alligator, and invited
many distinguished people to dine with
him. The table was elegantly set, and the
meal commenced with excellent soup.
"How do you like the soup ?" asked the
doctor of one of his guests.
Every good, indeed" answered the gen.
tleman; "turtle, is it not ?''
The doctor shook his head.
Il LnlQk IL Has SOllS" VI q AIoohy
taste," said another, mot unpleasant, but
peculiar"
"All alligators have," replied the host,
"the cayman peculiarly 50. The fellow
whom 1 dissected this morning."
Before he could say anything more
many of the diners turned pale and rushed
out of the room.
"See what imagination is," said Or.
Buckland to those who remained. "If l
had told them it was turtle or terrapin or
birds'nest soup, they would have pronoun-
ced it excellent, and their digestion been
none the worse"
"But was it really alligator ?" asked a
lady.
1.-THE soup was made from as good a
calf's head as ever wore coronet," re-
piled the doctor.
These people lost good dinner from
yielding to the effects of imagination.
But many lose years of happiness and help,
fulness by imagining themselves sick and
lying in bed, when a little effort Of the
will would make them we'll, and show
that it was not their bodies but their i'm
aginations that were diseased. .
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07
Gnn MADE KINGS AND MEN.

The world, If not governed by force,
greatly breads force and among the group
Of Princes who rode by the Queen, two
will dispose at will of 100000 soldiers
actually in barracks, while two others not
present will control the movement OF
i,5OO,O 900 more. That is actual power; and
substantial greatness such as belongs to
the heirs of Germany, Austria, Russia, and
Italy reflects a kind of greatness on the
class or rather clan, to which they all be-
long. Moreover, the Princes who will be
potentates sustain the Princes who will
not be with their whole strength. Courts
settle rank in Europe, and the Courts
unanimously insist that the descendants OF
royalty, even if dethroned, shall count
everywhere first. Not only will the
Kings not marry, legally at all events,
outside the clan, but they exert a steady
and effective pressure in favor of restrict
ing all thrones when vacant to the clan
alone. Nothing can be more absurd in
theory than for new State like Belgium
or Bulgaria, which needs an organizing
chief, statesman, or soldier, to choose a
Prince who may or may not be capable OF
ruling; but the statesmen know we'll
that if they step outside the clan, "EurO-
pean sympathy will be Forfeited" or, in
plainer words, that the sovereigns who
move armies will think they are dealing
with disagreeable upstarts. Bernandotte
only kept his throne at the price of turn,
ing on his own country-where he is still
regarded as traitor-and King Milan,
the only member of an obscure family
with a recognized crown, will probably
lose it for want of the determined protec-
tion that, had he been born within the
caste, would have been afforded him:
That protection was not, it is true, granted
to Alexander of Battenbergs; but then,
the Battenbergs are hardly royal, and pro:
lection to him might have precipitated
the gravest of all wars: The moment he
was gone the Bulgarians examined Eu.
rope with microscope to find an accepta:
Bile Prince; but they knew perfectly well
that their choice was restricted to those
whom the sovereigns recognize as socially
their "equals." 1t is that recognition
not birth alone, which gives the princely
cast its unique and almost inexplicable
place in Europe; and as long as that
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the firm tread of the widow was heard
the door opened, the dog shot out and the
widow followed with the shotgun!
"Mis' Baxter" said Barton with grln'
show dye dol"
She wheeled around quickly and saw
him on the roof.
"Hey? You here again ?" she said in
loud voice, while the dog made insane
efforts to gain the roof.
"Oh, don't be scart-I jes' come down
cause I had little matter t. speak o." I"
"Scart! Do I act scarf: Did l act scarf
before?"
"Oh, no, no; course not-I meant-er-''
"Ye don't know what ye did mean
Now you come down an git, or iii help
Tige up where We air"
Don't do that, Mis- Baxter-no need
of it. come down on very friendly
matter"
"Go head then-don't lay there like
bump on log"
Remark bly, friendly matter, Mis- Bax-
ter"
"Well, out with it, ye old fool"
"Wy-yes-I will. Ye see I want to
tell We something" -
ssfeii 81 ti1eHi!'l
"Well, ye see, Mis- Baxter, the fact is,
blamed if I don't kinder like yer style!"
"There, that's jes' zactly what suspect
ed all the time! Ye can't encourage these
men bit 'thout something o. this kind: l
orter filled ye plum full O. shot the first
time We were here and then there wouldn't
been none o. this kind O. talk"
"Mis' Baxter, don't ack so mean t.
feller! have great likin' fer yer style
an want % marry We, if agree'ble" -,
"Lor' sakes, I knowed it from the first!
AM then some day yell throw it up to me
that I led We on, Mr.. Barker"
"No I won't never. sides, my name
amt Barker-its Barton-Mis' Barton,
hey? Mis- Phil Barton? How does that
strike ye?"
II reckon ye low to marry me an get
the deed to this land yerself an I don't
have nothin'?" :.
"W'y-w'y-I'd have to, ye know, if
we was married"
"Then we won't be married. l tell ye;
YOU move off'n six months til prove up,
an then I'm blamed if won't have We,
Mr.. Barton-though reckon we'd better
live in my house, 'cause I notice ye haint
got no tar'-paper on yours"
"Call off the dog, Mis'-Mis'-"
"My names Julia-call me JULIE"
"Call off the dog, julie"
Mr.. Barton descended, and the widow
said, addressing the dog:
"There now, Tige, don't bite him no
more less yer told to. Come in an sit
down, Phil, an rest awhile an try piece
o. my wild strawberry pie"
One day the next spring Judge Posey
had just returned from drive into the
country. He put his feet up on the desk
to rest, saying:
II was past the place Phil Barton used
to have. The widder Baxter that was
pears to have the place an him too: He
was talkin' to me an says he: "Jedge, [
low to put taters on that strip down by
the pump what ye goin' to put on it?'
asked the widder as she come out. ia.
ters,' says he. 'Pertaters?' says She
'Yes, taters,' says he. Il low ye won't do
no sich thing-I want beans on that air
strip says the widder. Taters 'u'd be
better says Phil. Whose farm is this?'
says the widder. Then Phil turns to me
again, an says he: 'Jedge, Ireckon it'll be
beans on that air strip""-Dakota Bell.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07

FIDELITY. forsake friend.
When enemies gather around, when sick
ness falls on the heart, when the world is
dark and cherries, is the time to try true
friendship. They who turn from the scene
of distress betray their hypocrisy and
prove that interest only moves them. IL
YOU have friend who loves you-who
has studied your interest and happiness
be sure to sustain him in adversely. Let
him feel that his former kindness Isl appre-
ciated and that his love was not thrown
away. Real fidelity may be rare, put IL
exists-in the heart. They only deny us
worth and power who have never love1 1 a a
friend. or labored to make one happy. The
good and the kind, the affectionate and
the virtuous, see and feel the heavenly
influence.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07

OCcUPAT1oN.-Man must have occupa.
ton or be miserable. Toll is the price Of
sleep and appetite-of health and enjoy
ment. The very necessity which over
comes our natural sloth is blessing.
The whole world does not contain even
brier or thorn that nature could have
spared: We are happier with the sterili-
ty which we can overcome by industry,
than we could have been with sponta-
neous plenty and unbounded profus. on.
The body and the mind are improved oy
the toll that fatigues them. The toll IS
thousand times rewarded by the pleasure
which it bestows. Its enjoyments are
no Incidence can taste them. They flow
only from exertions which repay the Ia
h0rer
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07
DISTRIBUTION OF FOREST TREES.

The controlling conditions IN the dlStrl-
button of forest trees, are, first, the char
acteristics of the species secondly, the ma
ture of the soil; thirdly, the chance OF dis
tribution of the seed, and, lastly, the as
saults of the animal enemies which each
kind encounters. Some species-as, TOR
instance, the black locust st-are extensively
subjected to insect enemies. The oaks, on
the other hand, are, on account of their
acrid sap, tolerably we'll protected from
such dangers. AS a'whole, our deciduous
trees have established, by one device and
another, a tolerably strong defense against
animal pests. In fact, they owe their con-
tinued existence to their success in pre-
venting this class of dangers.
Now and then some new enemy arises,
which imperils and may destroy species.
An instance of this sort has recently come
to the attention of the present writer from
some study of the forests of Kentucky,
which was undertaken with the co-opera-
ton of his assistants. 1t appears from
these observations that the white oaks of
that district, which, despite the ravages OF
the axe, still continue some of the finest
forests, are in the way to disappear from
their failure to produce their kind. There
are singularly few young white oaks in
these woods, and an abundance of the less
desirable varieties of red and Spanish oaks.
The reason for this seems to be that the
nuts of the white oak are more palatable
to the squirrels than those Of the other
species; so these creatures industriously
seek them out, and only resort to the more
bitter and probably less nutritious nuts OF
the other species when those of the white
oak fail them. In similar ways other ami
mails act destructively upon other forest
trees. The introduction of swine in the
settled portions of the forest brings a
greedy and judicious palate to consume
the more edible nuts, and so destroy the
progeny of many trees. But what is one
kinds loss is another kinds gain. With
| the destruction of one species its competi.
| tors find fair field and hasten to occupy It,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07
IDLE BRAINS AND HANDS.

Bishop Peck has lately produced some
prominent ideas about dormant forces and
idle muscles. He instances the idle young
man. No power comes from his muscles.
They were made to he strong for work
but he does nothing. His muscular ability
is simply good for nothing. Devoted to
agriculture, or handicraft, the physical
force which is dormant within him would
give breadth and health, and respectable
ty. AS it is, he is only a nuisance; per-
haps loathsome object of pity and con-
tempt. And the Bishop takes the true
ground, that an industrious boot-black is
better and better off, than loafing mis-
creant sprig of aristocracy.
Work is demanded everywhere. All
departments of industry are languishing
for want of faithful, skilled workers,
whether it be making streets, saving
wood or in the higher branches of skill
and art, and yet witnesses the good bish-
op, amid all the din and labor of farming,
manufactures in all the industrial arts,
these men have nothing to do! How did
other men get work? BY thinking quick
ly and acting promptly; by seizing the
best, the first that came to hand. Tramp
ing, lounging, begging, never gave EN-.
ployment to any man. The thousands OF
idlers have made themselves Vlcl0uSly
brainless. The lapse of powers, active
and bright enough in children, has come
of parental indulgence, gormandizing lazl-
ness, INDUCED dependence, drinking, dis
use or misdirection. Grand fields of in.
dustry, wealth and usefulness lie all around
this idle shiftless nuisance, but he cannot
think himself into them. He has lost his
sole eyesight. The very bread, money,
comforts, elegance he sighs for are within
reach of his hands, but he cannot see
them; wouldn't know them If he did
see them.
But he does not only denounce the idler
but he tells how to find employment.
Employ yourself then. Sell that apple
instead of eating it. Sell it and buy two.
Sell the two and buy more. Before you
know it you will have basket-full-be a
trader, a merchant, a valuable citizen.
Do not hang about the city doing nothing.
Push out into the country, seize that saw
and axe; cut a few sticks of somebody's
wood. Earn your dinner, don't beg it.
Get hold of a spade; show somebody that
you are just the man they have wanted
for long time to make garden. Seize a
plow, and if you don't know how to hold
it, learn. "Hands all blistered!" Very
we'll. Glad of it. The first signs of life in
you for long time. If you had blistered
them before they would have been tough
and good for something by this time.
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recognition continues so long will that
place be maintained. In other words, the
social privilege of the princely caste will
probably endure as long as the great
monarchies. The greater Kings, besides
believing devoutly in the birth to which
they themselves owe so much, and which,
being an indestructible as we'll as incom-
municable quality, releases them from the
dangers of rivalry-Prince Bismarck, for
example, stops short at the steps of the
throne-finds the privileges of the clan con.
venient by enabling them to prevent all
mesalliances, which it is now. not only a
matter of family pride but historic ira
dition to avoid. They think it also even
more expedient to limit thrones to Princes,
not only because we all understand our
equals best, but because they thereby pre-
vent the rise of soldiers who might be un-
manageable or too successful. Kings have
had their jealousies before and since the
Hapsburgs killed "the Friedilander," be-
cause he was too successful on their be-
half; and the history of Napoleon accent
uated their distrust of risen men.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07

IRREvERENCE.-It was common say
ing of the Rev. DR.. Washburn that unbe-
belief comes oftener from irreverent asso-
citation than from intellectual doubt. The
sneer of Voltaire has killed more than
all his arguments. A jesting tone Of talk
on religious truths, habit of reckless crit
icism on religious things, is to "take the
name of God in vain" as the vulgar oaths;
and, when I hear him who calls HIM
self Christian, or gentleman, indulg-
ing in burlesque of this sort, | at once
recognize some moral defect In him. In
tellect without reverence is the head of
man Joined to beast. There are many
who think it proof of wit; but 1t is the
cheapest sort of wit, and shows as much
lack of brains as of moral feeling. would
say it with emphasis to each Christian that
hears me, never indulge in that habit,
nor allow sacred things to be jested at
without rebuke, but keep them as the
miniature of your mother, for no vulgar
hands to touch. There is an anecdote or
Boyle that he never pronounced the name
God without q. perceptible pause; and
whatever you think,'I recognize in it the
dictate of wise heart. We need this rev.
erence in the air of our social life, and its
neglect will palsy our piety.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07

aE AS from the smallest seeds germi-
nate the noblest trees of the forest, 80 from
the lowest rounds of toll, rise men, whose
influence is as worldwide as the paths of
commerce.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07

THE SENSATIONS OF THE DYING.-It is
doubtless the case that in many instances
and perhaps they are the majority-dying
persons lapse gradually into an uncon,,
seriousness that ends their bodily pain, and
saves them from the anguish OF the nnal
parting with those that they leave behind.
1t is not uncommon, however, for ciearness
of comprehension to persist TO the iast, Isl,
and perhaps it is still more common ior
activity. We think it was Ernest Wag.
ner who, in his General Pathology
dwelt particularly on the preservation of
the sense of hearing in many cases long
after the apparent occurrence of uncon.
sciousness, and who tenderly cautioned
his readers that this possibility should be
horne in mind.-Ne,U York Medical Journal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-09-07

s@ Take large sheet of paper and a
pen, and write out list of all the persons
You dislike, adding brief statement Of the
reasons why you dislike each Of them.
Having written accordingly, ask yourself
this question: Am I doing we'll to be
angry with these persons? Have they
given offense to justify the dislike? And
now listen to this prophecy: You will be
obliged to confess that you have not. You
will feel ashamed of your dislike for them.
You will resolve to cease disliking them.